But what's really interesting is the tools they're using to do so. When I looked over people's shoulders, I saw terminals and a web browser. They're not using Macs because their development tools require them, they're using Macs because of what else they get - an aesthetically pleasing OS, iTunes and what's easily the best trackpad hardware/driver combination on the market. These are people who work on the same laptop that they use at home. They'll use it when they're commuting, either for playing videos or for getting a head start so they can leave early. They use an Apple because they don't want to use different hardware for work and pleasure.

Apple's laptops are still the best PCs money can buy at the moment (despite their horribly outdated displays). It's no wonder Linux developers, too, favour them.

Both, MSDOS and Windows were proprietary and closed source. I fail to see what the point you're trying to make is, other than going out of your way to indict Apple for basically doing what every other vendor was doing in the early 80s, Microsoft included.

In the big scheme of things, Apple has been cozier to the FOSS community in this century than Microsoft. Far from ideal, and still a pretty evil corporation on their own right. But that just highlights how anti-thethical to FOSS MS has traditionally been. So...